Test Show #391
Josh slays a false narrative for Andy, SNL 50th, actors vs athlete's dysfunction, the old rock star experiment, Andy watches Yacht Rock Doc, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 45 min
Thought Spiral
Comedians Andy Kindler (Bob's Burgers, Maron) and J. Elvis Weinstein (MST3K, Freaks and Geeks) convene weekly to solve the problems of the world but usually end up talking about comedy and various forms of anxiety. Produced by Alex Brizel (ShowBriz Studios).
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Episodes
Test Show #390
Super Bowl recollections, Josh is a water hero, finding cultural harmony with pastrami, Andy wakes up drunk, lotsa docs, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 55 min
Test Show #389
Andy's Grammy recap, working geek skills into stand-up, Parsing Randy Newman. Josh waits for America to hit bottom, Andy does a gig, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Feb 10, 2025•2 hr 5 min
Test Show #388
Downhill from the Greatest generation, Andy thinks he should be doing Dylan covers on TV, Josh goes rollerblading, Andy watches the "The Fiddling Horse", audition memories, the current SNL doc gauntlet, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Feb 03, 2025•2 hr
Test Show #387
Ignoring the inauguration, Andy's gig report, the right to be wrong, Andy's de-X-ing process, Andy finally puts The Curly Shuffle in its place, Josh listens and occasionally comments, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Test Show #386
The guys discuss their near brush with the brushfire, Josh betrays his possessions, how social media bad feelings have evolved, alert fatigue, coping strategies for the coming era, and much more Spiraling.
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 43 min
Test Show #385
Andy attempts football empathy, the week in watching, bravery triggers, LA on fire, local disaster coverage, Andy scratches his Manson itch, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 47 min
Test Show #384
Happy New year, the guys give their holiday recaps, Andy finds his old age drink, Josh's youth drinking, Denny's Andy, the week in watching, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Test Show #383
Andy has fresh watchings, Josh's people habits, deep diving one of Andy's top shelf grudges, rock and roll affectations, our christmas break, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Dec 23, 2024•1 hr 47 min
Test Show #382
Josh questions Andy's diagnostic skills, Andy seeks justice for JonBenet, Andy celebrates a Met get, Josh watched stuff, Andy gets a name for his pain, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 46 min
Test Show #381
Pre-natal grudges, Andy finds his booze match, Josh gets haunted, Doc watching reports, Andy vs truck, Josh vs chihuahua, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Dec 09, 2024•2 hr 3 min
Test Show #380
An abbreviated Spiral due to thanksgiving travel, fear of a black spatula, forgetting 80's stand up, Andy's ode to soup, Josh's bro theory, Andy's fixed income, and much more Spiraling.
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Test Show #379
Andy plans his getaway, Josh's new metaphor, getting back to bad gigs, keeping murder fresh, RIP Andy Paley, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 52 min
Test Show #378
The X-odus to Bluesky, the folly of assigning blame, writing sucks, Josh uses the prefix "micro" 3 times in an hour, brain management in the Trump era, Andy cranks up the gigs, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 58 min
Test Show #377
2 Hours, 2 moods this election week. the elastic ethics of insult comedy, documentary ruts, coping plans for Trump 2, bad information voters, the age of picking your fights, Hi Gruber, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Nov 11, 2024•2 hr 3 min
Test Show #376
Going to a Garden party, Josh slaps back at the Kindlers, last pre-election takes, debating dog capacities, A Grateful Death, Josh replaced his memories with jokes, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Nov 04, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Test Show #375
Andy puts the Mets to bed for the year, Andy's movie shoot, state of the podcast, Josh gets an alcohol ambush, pre-election feels, IRL lunch report, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Oct 28, 2024•1 hr 56 min
Test Show #374
Birthday week in Kindlerville, Josh tries to gin up some baseball rivalry, the drag of celebrities, sleep strategy, Andy tries to de-Google, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 50 min
Test Show #373
Andy's got Mets playoff fever, confessing to comedy crimes, Andy goes full Kindler on SNL and gets hot about Coldplay, Josh tames the tiny beast in his bed, kinks in the Slinky, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 57 min
Test Show #372
Andy ties one on, Kris Kristofferson, sorting out generations, Andy tries to watch baseball correctly, considering Pink Floyd, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 53 min
Test Show #371
Andy defends Rock and Roll romanticism, documentary viruses, a schadenfreude moment, "Freaks and Geeks" anniversary, reading "Being There", listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Sep 30, 2024•1 hr 59 min
Test Show #370
JAMES ADOMIAN joins the Spiral for the first hour to talk about his new stand-up special " Path of Most Resistance " plus: Andy tries to construct a point out of song lyrics, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Sep 23, 2024•1 hr 59 min
Test Show #369
Looking for A.I., Andy hears more books, the downside of musical elitism, post-debate kvellling, Andy gets called to cartoon duty, Josh worries about new visitors in the neighborhood eating his dog, tales of forced judaism, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Sep 16, 2024•1 hr 41 min
Test Show #368
Andy cleans up his feelings on Biden's decision, Josh cares about tennis for a minute, Andy still trying to get the grudge release concept down, Andy tries a healthier form of head banging, the Malcolm Gladwell tipping point, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 55 min
Test Show #367
We're back from vacation! Andy's face-plant-based diet, Josh rejects Andy's grudge, content anhedonia, Moon Zappa's book, Olympics and other August happenings, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Sep 02, 2024•1 hr 45 min
Test Show #366
Our last show before summer break, adjusting to the new Presidential race, Andy quizzes Josh on his ancestry, an X posting post mortem, sports fan idealism, listener questions, and much more Spiraling!
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 51 min
Test Show #365
Processing last weekend's events, Larry Kindler's workplace, Josh collects ice cream market data, Andy is right about everyone, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Jul 22, 2024•1 hr 52 min
Test Show #364
A rare IRL interaction between the guys, more Joe-riatric discussion, Andy tries Josh's latest ice cream, the world of confirmation bias, Josh escapes to the Old West, LISTENER QUESTIONS, and much more Spiraling.
Jul 15, 2024•2 hr
Test Show #363
Week 2 of America trying to take grandpa's keys, pegging the Thought Spiral golden age, Discussing meat guilt, Josh defends ambivalence, Andy tries to nickname Josh, and much more Spiraling.
Jul 08, 2024•1 hr 52 min
Test Show #362
Andy turns a comedy grudge into a hockey grudge, Crying and kissing on film, Andy does a Sopranos aria, Dealing with debate shock, Andy goes in for body work, and much more Spiraling.
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 55 min
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